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SUFFOLK/ 



Damage by Turnip Ply and Grub in Weybread Parish, &c. 



This table gives information contributed by twelve of the farmers 

 in the parish of Wej'bread, Suffolk, and one in the adjoining parish of 

 Fressingfield, for which I am indebted to the help of the Eev. H. J. 

 White, Vicar of Weybread. 



No remedies were tried in any case, nor was the seed in any case 

 put in with the water-drill, nor the water-cart used. 



Of these thirteen farms only two escaped fly-attack, on Swedes 

 and Turnips, Nos. 1 and 6 : in the case of the first the Turnips did not 

 come up at the first sowing, and resowing was late; in the second 

 the use of salt, at the rate of three hundredweight per acre, is noted, 

 and also that it was light land. At No. 4, though attack was bad, it 

 is also observed that the crop on light land was good. 



At No. 2 there was bad attack on both Swedes and Turnips, 

 and the Swedes were only half a crop ; whilst the Turnips, similarly 

 managed in all respects excepting that exactly double the amount 

 of seed was sown, were a full plant, and the crop was good, though 

 late. 



Nos. 5 and 10 both suffered severely, although a good amount of 

 seed was sown ; but it will be observed that the state of tilth was not 

 considered satisfactory by the contributors, who only note it as " fair." 



At No. 11, where there is an entry of " sheep -folding only," and 

 at No. 12, where "burnt earth only" is mentioned as having been 

 applied to the Turnip, fly was bad, and there was "no crop" of 

 Turnips ; but the Swedes, with the help of farmyard and artificial 

 manure, together or separately, did much better, giving half a crop 

 in one case, although badly attacked, and escaping attack in the 

 other. 



At No. 18 the loss was total, but Mustard sown instead of Swedes, 

 which were destroyed, gave a good crop. 



* In the case of the Suffolk table the amount of information with which I was 

 kindly favoured being furnished (as given) in tabulated form, I regret not being 

 able to offer fuller details as to calculation of money loss ; also in eleven of the 

 twenty-six series of entries a difficulty arises with regard to the especial object of this 

 paper from loss by " grub " being recorded together with that of the " fly." It will 

 be observed, however, that of these eleven entries eight mention amount of crop, and 

 one mentions no crop (also of Swedes) without any record being made of resowing ; 

 consequently the only considerations of resowing affected appear to be the entries of 

 " Turnips sown twice " at Nos. 8 and 9. These observations refer also to a portion 

 of the remarks, p. 50, lines one to three from the top. ED. 



